Old Scrooge Takes Over Glum Capital Yuletide Scene
Washington dispatch by Frederick C. Othman reports a grim holiday mood in the capital. President Truman's 10 point anti inflations plan faces Senate delay and House skepticism as lawmakers rush toward a holiday recess. Critics mock the two week vacation while officials fret over taxes distillers and grain use.
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London
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Truman to push wage price controls in new anti inflation drive
President Truman prepares a new wage price control and rationing offensive against Congress, aiming to run into the 1948 presidential campaign. He is expected to seek authority for compulsory anti inflation action while accepting a largely voluntary bill to maintain export controls, transportation facility allocations, and wartime grain powers. Republicans call for prompt voluntary industry agreements, targeting meat steel and key industries, with the measure authorizing allocations and regulation of speculative trading.
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Congress
Senate
House
Explosion at Swiss munitions depot kills two
Two persons were reported killed and four missing after an explosion wrecked a munitions depot and lit a fire in the hamlet of Blausee Sotholz Switzearland this morning. Three houses and two barns were destroyed.
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Blausee -Sotholz
Switzerland
Courts empower committees to probe political affiliations
Today's editorial notes that congressional committees have broad powers to question individuals about their political leanings including Communist or Republican or Democrat or Socialist. The piece, by David Lawrence, forecasts more investigations as the 1848 election approaches and appears alongside pages covering comics, crossword, letters, bridge, financials, churches, radio, social news, and deaths.
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Mary Haworth
Plane Found Wrecked Four Die Near Terre Haute
Four bodies were recovered from a private four passenger plane found wrecked on a farm about five and a half miles southeast of Terre Haute Indiana. The aircraft was en route from St Louis to Indianapolis and had sent a radio request for location help Friday night but no further transmission was received. The wreckage showed no fire and fuel tanks were reported empty by William O Jones Hulman Field superintendent.
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Terre, Haute
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Jones
Swede to Buy Mexco Phone Lines
Mexico City Swedish multimillionaire Axel Wiennergren, wartime immigrant to Mexico, announced Friday night he arranged to buy control of Mexico's two telephone systems valued at 300,000,000 pesos.
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Mexico City
Axel Wiennergren
Mexico
Old Newsboys Sell Herald Journals For Toy Fund
In Onondaga County after a six year pause the Old Newsboys returned selling Herald Journals to boost the Christmas Toy Fund. About 1500 volunteers from judges and lawyers to policemen and teachers joined the effort. They collected quarters dimes and various bills signaling strong local generosity. The event drew long before papers arrived and before school hours.
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Herald-Journals
Onondaga County
French Labor Revolt Grows
Paris reports a labour uprising expanding as workers join against the Communist leadership of the General Labour Confederation. Leaders forecast two million workers will soon be enrolled, about one third of the confederation's membership.
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Paris
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Labbor
State Bonus Delayed Due to Funds Shortage in New York
Albany. The Veterans' Bonus Bureau will not start payment of the 400 million dollar State bonus on January 2 1948 as planned. State Comptroller Frank C Moore said checks cannot be issued before January 6 due to lack of funds.
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Albany
Veterans’ Bonus Bureau
Frank C. Moore
Dilemma Over Siamese Twins in Indianapolis
Edward R. Speer and wife of Bedford Indiana faced a two week deadline over whether to permit surgery on their conjoined twins born at the top of their skulls. Doctors warned surgery would be fatal and cost prohibitive care options were limited, while the Speers argued they could not afford long term hospital or nurse care. Authorities warned possible non support if they refused to take the babies home.
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Indianapolis
Edward R. Speer
Bedford
Ind
Donald Casely
Indiana University Medical Center
James Whitcomb Riley Hospital
Speers
Speer
Naval Depot
Crane
Cold War Marshall Plan Faces Rough Path in Congress
Washington reports sharp party attacks on the four year 17 billion dollar Marshall plan as Congress prepares to reconvene January 6. Taft seeks annual reviews and a one year pledge limiting European aid, while Senator Johnson echoes caution about surplus food for exports. Truman had asked 6.8 billion for 15 months starting April 1 with stop gap aid to France Italy and Austria.
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Congress
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Michigan
Taft
Ohio
Edwin ‘C. Johnson
Colorado
Truman Wins 522 Million Aid Bundle For Europe
Congress approved a 522 million dollar aid package to France Austria and Italy with 75 million less than the administration hoped for to finance food fuel and fertilizer for the winter. The package also includes 18 million to China and 340 million for occupation costs in Germany Japan and Korea. A separate stopgap relief fund backed by Republicans to ease domestic cost of living was approved after a 33 day special session. The bill also settled on 150 906 000 for occupation costs after a House-Senate dispute over a 260 million cut.
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Clay Faces Charges Of Black Market In Germany
The Army orders a full investigation into reports that American personnel in Germany engaged in black market activities and other violations. The charges were forwarded to Gen. Lucius D. Clay, the American military governor, after being received recently.
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Washington
Army
Germany
Department of the Army
Lucius D. Clay
Hudson Man Held In Wife's Slaying
Rennel A. Bailey, aged 33, an unemployed merchant seaman, was charged with first degree murder after his wife Kay Bailey died from gunshot wounds in a car. Kay Bailey, 25, a mother, was shot late last night in Greenport as she and other night shift workers left the Universal Match Company plant.
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Universal Match. Company
Fire destroys Elkton business district hotel in blaze
Firemen from eight towns battled a major Elkton Maryland blaze threatening much of the business district. One hotel was destroyed another heavily damaged along with three other businesses and a movie theater. Over 100 couples fled from hotels as flames spread along Main Street starting at a shoe store.
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Gretna Green
Main St
Fuel Pipeline Cut Causes Massive Gasoline Spill
NORFOLK Conn An automobile ruptured a fuel pipeline in the waterfront area early today releasing 775000 gallons of gasoline into the streets. State police closed the district to prevent what they call a potential major catastrophe.
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Norfolk, Conn
Sherlock Holmes Deduction in Whimsical Swinter Attire
A playful exchange shows Holmes praising Watson for noting his forgotten swinter underwear and a Paris eldenewa clue, illustrating a humorous, quirky deduction. The snippet preserves character and line style in a light, period-tinged tone.
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Sherlock Holmes
Watson
Holmes
Five Above Coldest Day in Syracuse History Sets Record
The temperature rose to five degrees above zero marking the coldest day of the season in the area. In 1942 Syracuse registered 26 degrees below zero for an all time low. Haveheart the weatherman forecast a warming trend but no rise above freezing. Canton hit nine below, Utica seven below, Fort Plain zero, and Albany two above.
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Utica
Fort Plain
Albany
China Adopts New Economic Policy for 1948
The government today announced a sweeping economic policy for 1948. It imposes tighter control over private banks, continues suspending loans to non productive enterprises, and intensifies the war against money black markets.
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Nanking
Five Hurt in Naples Riot Over Christmas Unemployment Dole
Five persons were wounded today in Naples during a riot sparked by a quarrel among workers over whether to accept a Christmas unemployment dole deemed inadequate.
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Naples
Italy
Perras
Marshall Address Frames East West Peace Fight Over Marshall Plan
Secretary of State Marshall spoke in a 16 minute radio address about the London conference among four foreign ministers. He blamed Soviet tactics for stalled talks on peace treaties for Germany and Austria and warned that a healthy European community requires more than paper agreements. He argued the Marshall Plan is essential to rebuild Western Europe and curb tyranny, noting the Soviet Union’s opposition confirms the high stakes and the need for real political solutions.
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Soviet Union
Eight Children Die in DeKalb House Fire
Eight Black children aged from eight months to 13 years perished when a three room house burned down at De Kalb Texas last night while parents were away. The blaze left the parents without immediate children as investigators probed the cause of the deadly fire.
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